Living in revolutionary times
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Unlike America’s Revolution, which the colonists fought to restore God-given rights usurped by King George III, the French Revolution ushered in the false religion of socialism, grounded in atheism.
Over the weekend, in addition to being in the World Cup soccer final against tiny Croatia , France got to celebrate Bastille Day, which commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Paris prison.
It’s fair to say the soccer match was worthier of feting. The Bastille takeover sparked the French Revolutionaries’ overthrow of the royal aristocracy and the onset of the Reign of Terror.
France’s revolutionaries began by beheading as many people as possible, including colleagues not deemed sufficiently revolutionary.
Unlike America’s Revolution, which the colonists fought to restore God-given rights usurped by King George III, the French Revolution ushered in the false religion of socialism, grounded in atheism.
If you compare the two over the past two centuries, it should be clear even to Bernie Sanders about which revolution has been more beneficial. Here’s a quick recap:
The French Revolution emboldened Karl Marx and other socialist thinkers, culminating in Vladimir Lenin’s communist takeover of Russia in 1917, followed by Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party’s takeover of Germany in 1933.
In its 12 years, Nazi Germany plunged the world into a second World War and directly murdered 6 million Jews and 5 million others, including millions of Christians.
In its 74 years, the Soviet Union killed more than 20 million people and inspired other communist regimes, including China, to slay an estimated 80 million more people in pursuit of heaven on Earth without God. Socialism is even now destroying Venezuela and enslaving people from North Korea to Cuba.
America, on the other hand, has been a beacon of freedom and prosperity despite the stain of slavery that was overcome at huge cost. America’s Founders penned the world’s oldest and most copied Constitution, basing it on the premise that human rights come from God, not government.
Two more Judeo-Christian concepts animated America’s Founders: Created in the image of God, each person has a sacred right to life, but people are morally flawed from birth. Hence, government exists to protect human life, but government itself must be restrained lest any man or men acquire too much power. This was truly revolutionary, unlike the French experiment, which quickly devolved into tyranny leading to Napoleon’s ascent.
In the United States, political institutions (like the Senate) were borrowed from the Romans or Greeks, but the heart of America’s idea of limited government was explained by John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
America’s progressives insist today that they are the American Revolution’s true heirs, even though their pedigree is from Paris, not Philadelphia. They insist that they alone get to determine who can exercise the freedoms of speech, assembly, religion and even going about daily life without being harassed.
America’s ruling elites did not merely forget America’s heritage; they have deliberately suppressed it. They look enviously at Europe, whose abandonment of Christianity and acceptance of mass migration has brought that continent to the brink of a new authoritarianism. Try home schooling in Germany, for instance. Or speaking your mind in merry old England, which locks people up for failing to salute the rainbow flag or the crescent and star.
The same sort of mischief is percolating in America, held back only by the strength of American Christianity, which is why the left assaults it at every turn. Unchecked, the left’s revolutionaries will fundamentally transform America into a place where we must lie to survive.
As religion writer Lauren Markoe writes: “LGBT people of faith say there is much work to be done to extend the spirit of the law to the nation’s churches.” If that doesn’t chill you to the bone, you haven’t been paying attention to the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s imposition of same-sex “marriage” or the court victories notched by transgender activists.
In the 1830s, French social critic Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that churches were the glue holding the new republic together. Many scholars now instead credit the secular Enlightenment and ignore the Great Revivals.
“The Enlightenment is working,” writes Harvard University Professor Steven Pinker. “Our ancestors replaced dogma, tradition and authority with reason, debate and institutions of truth seeking.” Never mind the Man from Nazareth who proclaimed, “the truth shall make you free.”
As Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson wrote approvingly of Mr. Pinker, “The scientific method displaced superstition.” Which would have been news to Sir Isaac Newton or Francis S. Collins, who just led the completion of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health.
By now, back in the world of sports, we’ll know whether Croatia pulled off an upset for the ages. Or whether the French have seen to it that this Eastern Europe soccer revolution has gone far enough.
May the best team have won.
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i saw this the other day, thought it was pretty funny.
the Robespierres are always surprised they end up on the chopping block
Point of clarification: What exactly is "American Christianity" and is it wholesome and non-threatening?
Grounded in Christianity is more like it. Jesus was a socialist in every sense, and a total bleeding heart liberal.
So be it. The Socialists are in no way promoting the teachings of Jesus. Atheism is one of their hall marks and Christianity is a roadblock they have to eliminate.
Too bad most born again scum think that non-born again are atheists.
Total and utter bull shit. That is not what any liberals, progressives or Democrats want. The vast majority of liberals, progressives and Democrats are Christian and they also vigorously support our nations unique blend of capitalism and socialism which doesn't resemble any other socialist State that has ever existed. It is what has made us the envy of the world over the last 80 years. I like the fact that my grandmother and now mother are able to receive social security benefits and I can feel comfortable knowing they have Medicare. I also love our local police and fire departments who will come to any house where they are called, I love the military that fights to protect our nation from foreign adversaries like Russia, North Korea, Syria, Iran and any other despot nation bent on destroying western democracy. I love that I have access to water, power and sewer utilities that are government backed. But I still wouldn't call myself a "socialist" because I don't want everything controlled and run by the government, I appreciate the free hand of the market for all non-essentials, supply and demand works well for nearly all other sales and service. So I've invented a new word to combine "socialism" and "capitalism", it's called "sensibalism" and frankly, it's just sensible. Socialism for the "needs" and capitalism for the "wants". I "need" my grandmother to be able to have health insurance that doesn't bankrupt her and her family. I "want" to get her a $200 massage and spa day but due to supply and demand it's pretty pricey so that'll have to wait. See, sensible. Sensibalism.
And notice I didn't mention anything about religion? That's because it's sensible to let people worship how they wish, that is a personal matter be they atheist, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Wiccan or whatever faith or non-faith you might be, they are ALL equal and should be treated as such.
EMPHATICALLY!
Moreover, even in our capitalist appetites we pool our monies together into paid collectives (risk pools), so as to disburse cost and catastrophic events across a wider group of players. That is insurance. We pool our foodstuffs together in stores and on shelves, and we trust in a government collective to keep it safe for consumption. We pool our doctors and healthcare professionals into networks. Even the stock market is a collective. In addition, the church or any organization is a collective. Our communities are collectives! Even the sheer number of homeless folks are compelled to 'band' into 'working' groups!
Past comments that imply a caste system within xtianity that puts born again scum at the top of the bible thumper shit pile.
Socialism is closer to those teachings than 90% of Christians today practice or preach. You might want to read the Gospels instead of the crap that snake-oil peddling bible-thumping screechers are spewing.
Count me an atheist who very much admires the teachings of Jesus (whether he existed as one or more persons or not). The teachings are wonderful. It would be nice if more of the people who make so much public noise about being Christian promoted them, too. On this forum, at least, and to a large extent all across the land, the people who declaim this the loudest promote them the least--but Jesus knew all about those types as well. Like fleas, they've always pestered mankind.
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"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord' and not do what I say?" Luke 6:46
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." Matthew 6:1
You can see the mob mentality of the French revolution echoed in the crazed cries of treason, without any regard for the legal requirements, from so many in today's left wing movement. Perusing the comments in the daily Trump hate seeds bring to mind this description of the French version of "liberty":
"By the autumn of 1793 France's new rulers had resorted to show trials to send batches of officials to the guillotine every few weeks. The Revolutionary Tribunal was given the power to limit trials by asking jurors if their consciences had become "sufficiently enlightened" to pass death sentences before they knew all the facts. Soon defense witnesses were done away with altogether, a move quickly followed by a law — described by Schama as "the founding charter of totalitarian justice" — that abolished defense lawyers. By July 1794 "justice" had been so speeded up that the tribunal could pass 900 death sentences in a single month."
It's respect for the rule of law that separates the American from the French revolutions, and the mob mentality of today's left shows what a fine line it is that separates them. One need only look at social justice warriors on twitter to see the mindset of the mob cheering for the guillotining of perceived dissenters.
What an interesting perspective for a song, and the beauty of the melody, and oh the harmony. It is a perfect selection, Greg. It does something else to me to: It makes me wonder in a civil war, even as 'combatants' face off, do they really hate one another? Or, is there sorrow in what they have set themselves to do to each other? Solemn Pondering.
Alas! Why is it so hard for a diverse nation to get on one accord as a nation living up to its lofty creeds of justice, prosperity, and equality? This time, if we pull it all down to the level of war, the noise of sorrow will be without equal. The opposing 'sides' are capable of intellect and means to force mutually assured destruction on themselves.
If we grow too far apart: Our perennial enemies (physical, cultural, and spiritually-wicked) will not give us space this time around to come back together. Enemies are already actively provoking us to tear this union apart!
There is a line in the movie, Arrival (2016 Director: Denis Villeneuve) . . . . I could ask questions of our nation:
1. If you could see the history of this country laid out in front of you - would you change things?
2. If so, which social group or groups would you erase completely from the fabric of this country?
3. Which social group has failed to help make this country great?
Arrival
Mr. Heartland. Very touching. Ah yes, the poignant purity of modern day American christianity and all that preceded it.
Let us not mention the Native Americans. Or the Blacks brought here on slave ships. And of course the Chinese brought here for labor. The Crusades---forget them too. No Witch burnings either, huh? The Saturday night Lynching's followed by the Sunday morning sermons to explain it all.
In all truth it is conservatism that brought all of this and liberalism that does the dirty work to end it.
Your seed is right wing propaganda. Goebbels smiles his approval from his grave in hell.